Faculty Profiles

Department of Religion Faculty

The Department of Religion consists of a broad and diverse faculty of distinguished experts in various religions, eastern and western, ancient and modern. We also apply a broad array of disciplinary methods to the study of religion: Our faculty includes anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers – all devoted to understanding the impact that religion has had and continues to have in human society.

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  Kecia Ali

  Professor of Religion, Islamic studies

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  Ellie Ash

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  Benjamin Austin

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  John Balch

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  Alexandra Bayer

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  Peter Berger

  Deceased, June 27, 2017; Professor Emeritus, Sociology of Religion

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  Andrea M. Berlin

  James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology and Religion

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  Emily Bogin

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  Sara Boston

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  Scott Chase

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  Jordan Conley

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  Nicole Correri

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  Nicholas Covaleski

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  Wendy Czik

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  M. David Eckel

  Professor of Religion, Philosophy of Religion; Buddhism in India and Tibet

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  David Frankfurter

  Chair; Professor of Religion; Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, ancient Mediterranean religions; Jewish and Christian literature

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  Paula Fredriksen

  Professor Emerita William Goodwin; Aurelio Chair Emerita of the Appreciation of Scripture; Social and intellectual history of early Christianity

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  Garrett Fugate

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  Tyler Fuller

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  Kira Ganga Kieffer

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  Cristina García González

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  Margarita Guillory

  Associate Professor of Religion, American religious history; digital religion; religion and popular culture

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  Ateeb Gul

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  Ben Gurin

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  Laura Harrington

  Senior Lecturer, Buddhism in America; Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; material culture

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  Ray Hart

  Professor of Religion; Philosophy of religion; theology; religion and the arts

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  Kendra Holt Moore

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  April Hughes

  Associate Professor of Religion, Religions of China

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  Steven Katz

  Professor of Religion; Alvin J. And Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies, Judaica; Holocaust Studies; philosophy of religion; comparative mysticism

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  Jonathan Klawans

  Director, Graduate Studies; Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies, religion and religious literature of Judaism in late antiquity

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  Deeana Klepper

  Associate Professor of Religion and History, Christianity, Judaism, and medieval and early modern religious history.

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  Livia Kohn

  Professor Emerita; Daoist Studies

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  Frank J. Korom

  Professor of Religion and Anthropology, South Asian, Caribbean, and Diaspora Studies; popular culture and folklore

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  Hillel Levine

  Professor Emeritus; Sociology, Religion, and Judaic Studies

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  Yair Lior

  Lecturer, Comparative Religion; Judaism; Chinese philosophy; Neo-Confucianism

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  Diana Lobel

  Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies; Associate Director of Graduate Studies, classical and medieval Jewish studies; comparative philosophy and religious thought

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  Jeta Luboteni

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  Kaitlyn Martin Fox

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  Herbert Mason

  Deceased, January 1, 2017; Professor Emeritus, Arabic and Islamic studies

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  Magda Mohamed

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  Chad Moore

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  Amanda Napior

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  Robert Neville

  Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology

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  Alan Olson

  Professor Emeritus; Religion and Philosophy, Christian philosophy/theology; religion and literature

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  Gabriel Paxton

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  Anthony Petro

  NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Professor of Religion, Modern Christianity; American Religion

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  Stephen Prothero

  C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion, religion, and culture in the United States

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  Teena Purohit

  Director, Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of Religion, South Asian Studies and Islamic studies

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  Mohammad Rehman

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  M.I. Rey

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  Attash Sawja

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  Dane Scott

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  Adam Seligman

  Professor of Religion; Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture

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  Joshua Smith

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  Merlin Swartz

  Deceased, February 21, 2022. Professor Emeritus Islamic Studies

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  Arslan Tazeem

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  KMarie Tejeda

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  Elie Wiesel

  Deceased, July 2, 2016; Professor Emeritus; Philosophy and Religion

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  Yidi Wu

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  Michael Zank

  Professor of Religion, Jewish, and Medieval Studies

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  Simon Zeldin

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  Kan Zhang